The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.
—William Lloyd Garrison
Topics: Apathy
I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard.
—William Lloyd Garrison
Topics: Dedication, Respect, Respectability, Commitment
Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage.
—William Lloyd Garrison
Topics: Integrity
In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine.
—William Lloyd Garrison
Topics: Truth
We may be personally defeated, but our principles never.
—William Lloyd Garrison
Topics: Principles
With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
—William Lloyd Garrison
Topics: Arguments
My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind.
—William Lloyd Garrison
Topics: Country, Patriotism
Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a case like the present.
—William Lloyd Garrison
Topics: Moderation
Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?
—William Lloyd Garrison
Topics: Integrity
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